EVE General Discussion

and on the first note, this doesnt work Ive parked at a planet where it spun fast enough that one island guessing the size of austrailia was in and out of view in about 3 minutes.

Seems to me Stealth Bomberz are well suited for Orbital Carpet bombing... will they be able to do this as well or will it just be BS & larger ships ableto rain downfires from the heavens? Will there be a special skill I have to train for to use my Pureifier?

There could be an in space engagement zone for the purposes of Orbital Bombardment above each district. Since the planet rotates these would need to be detached from the solar system's physics simulation. To keep things simple a ship would have to first warp to the planet, then "enter orbit" which would move them to the engagement zone at a lower altitude. This would also allow blockades as groups could fortify the planet's warp in points. The normal warp in, customs office, orbital command center, etc could all be valid points for entering orbit.

I always though that a possible idea for dust players would be ship boarding, this could create another style of environment for dust players to play in. Instead of large outdoor areas have the ability for dust mercs to use a boarding shuttle to attach to larger ships.

In defense of this capitals like dreads would be given the option to have a dust clone vat where they can call for dust mite reinforcements to defend their ships from within.

Using boarding parties would be another way to defend against orbital bombardments.

example: Dusties realize that there is a dread orbiting the planet preparing for a bombardment. Dusties send up a 6 man boarding party to neutralize the threat from within. Once the boarding shuttle is launched it appears in on grid in EVE creating a target smaller ships can attack to prevent them from attaching to the dread. Once they attach to the dread there is a count down of 2-5 minutes (for the attacking party to cut through the hull) allowing the dread to call for Dust reinforcements from the pool available or from the defenders on the planet, offering them isk, at whatever he feels it is worth to him. Once the reinforcements choose to take the contract they are spawned on the dread (only if he has a dust clone vat module installed). Battle occurs in the corridors of the dread, again 6v6 or 8v8 smaller style matches.

If the Defenders destroy the attacking dusties shuttle (with a clove vat in it) they win the match. If the attackers reach the pod of the Dread pilot they are given the option to either Self destruct the ship or eject the pilot. (dusties cannot fly dreads so they would have to contact another pilot to take the dread).

With this option you could expand on it to all capitals and super caps creating another way to attack supers and titans in fleet battles. This would also open up another style of ship where players could have a dust carrier (name patent pending) where it has boarding party shuttles.

Riggs

if i am the one shooting the planet i want to see what i hit, maybe a video of the hits, also i want killmails for it.

different ammo should look different. it looks like scorch was used in the show, but would conflag look different,also would it have a different effect? or would all attacks do the same damage in the same radius

I want the properties of the weapons I am using to have a visible effect on the bombardment FX.

So I can use a rainbow tachyon abaddon to nuke people.

Fixed for you ;)

I think O-Bom should be restricted to BS or larger, unless Stealth bombers can launch bombs to the surface too.

Would quite like to see carpet bomb runs by fighter bombers

edit: Skill wise, maybe an accuracy skill, every skill level decreases radius of shot by 10%? that way low skilled attempts may end up hurting the wrong side

Just thought of another feature, and it would help give some love to under-used ships,

Let EW frigs help boost the effectiveness of the strike, by fitting something like a target painter but a planet version

If there is low risk involved on the eve side, the power of the OB should follow and not be very effective.On contrary if we have a massive engagment on the eve side with large fleets, the OB should reflect that fact

To make it so.We can establish that an OB requires a huge amount of power ;creating a large disturbance on surrounding ships.
-If we are in the case where a fleet is not facing an opposing fleet, this disturbance would have very negative effects on all the fleet( maybe disrupting warp,reducing capacitor ...
-If we are in the other case,we could have the possibility to focus that disturbance on the enemy fleet, making the OB even more powerfull and deadly for our little rabits


We may also take into consideration that dust combats are relatively quick compared to the reactivity in eve.So launching an OB should take time and everyone arround have to know what is happening.Like sirenes and huge red alerts all arround the place .Maybe all cyno jammers should be turned off to give more reactivity to the defenders; or maybe not

Or scanning for bio sigs as as long as the module is in operation it gives a radar sweep of where current targets are to a more precise degree.
ex: Rather than motion sensor like typical fps. A dustbunny helm can use a tac overlay and see targets behind walls where the sensor sweep is.
EW frigs would have a smaller radius of scanning, like one building compared to a black-ops BS that can scan a whole facility at a time.

And they could make it so such modules can fail or produce false sigs via defensive shielding, like a thick military complex cant be scanned compared to a thinner industrial complex., or special circumstances like plasma/lava planets.

I know not killing something is a odd way of helping in EVE. Yet giving our team some passive map bonus to our invaders or home team would be nice.